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www/proprietary proprietary-surveillance.html
From: |
rsiddharth |
Subject: |
www/proprietary proprietary-surveillance.html |
Date: |
Sun, 22 Apr 2018 12:12:25 -0400 (EDT) |
CVSROOT: /web/www
Module name: www
Changes by: rsiddharth <rsd> 18/04/22 12:12:25
Modified files:
proprietary : proprietary-surveillance.html
Log message:
[RT#1288502] Add android surveillance.
CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/proprietary/proprietary-surveillance.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.176&r2=1.177
Patches:
Index: proprietary-surveillance.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /web/www/www/proprietary/proprietary-surveillance.html,v
retrieving revision 1.176
retrieving revision 1.177
diff -u -b -r1.176 -r1.177
--- proprietary-surveillance.html 9 Apr 2018 23:50:04 -0000 1.176
+++ proprietary-surveillance.html 22 Apr 2018 16:12:23 -0000 1.177
@@ -339,6 +339,24 @@
<ul>
<li>
+ <p>More
+ than <a
href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/apr/16/child-apps-games-android-us-google-play-store-data-sharing-law-privacy">50%
+ of the 5,855 Android apps studied by researchers were found to
+ snoop and collect information about its users</a>. 40% of the apps
+ were found to insecurely snitch on its users. Furthermore, they
+ could detect only some methods of snooping, in these proprietary
+ apps whose source code they cannot look at. The other apps might
+ be snooping in other ways.</p>
+
+ <p>This is evidence that proprietary apps generally work against its
+ users. Android users must choose to use apps from the free
+ software only <a href="https://f-droid.org/">F-Droid store</a>
+ that <a href="https://f-droid.org/wiki/page/Antifeatures">
+ prominently warns the user if an app contains
+ anti-features</a>.</p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
<p>20 dishonest Android apps
recorded <a
href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/07/stealthy-google-play-apps-recorded-calls-and-stole-e-mails-and-texts">phone
calls and sent them and text messages and emails to
@@ -1622,7 +1640,7 @@
<p class="unprintable">Updated:
<!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2018/04/09 23:50:04 $
+$Date: 2018/04/22 16:12:23 $
<!-- timestamp end -->
</p>
</div>